Sewing appliance.



S. D. JACKSON.

SEWING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION man fzs. 29. 1916.

1522,96@ Patented J une 12, 1917.

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SAMUEL D. JACKSON, OF LUMPKIN, GEORGIA.

SEWING APPLIANcn Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 12, 1917.

Application filed February 29, 1916. Serial No. 81,195.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lumpkin, in the county of Stewart and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing Appliances; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usc the same.

This invention has for its primary object to provide a device to be used in hand sewing the soles of shoes and the like for guiding or drawing the under or lock thread through the loops of the upper thread in lock-stitching.

Another object is the provision of a sewing appliance of this character embodying a shuttle carrying the lower or lock thread and means loosely holding the shuttle and permitting the latter vto be drawn through the loops of the upper thread.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the sewing appliance,

Fig. 2 represents a top plan View thereof,

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the bracing and holding plate of the sewing appliance, and

Fig. 4; represents an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of the shuttle holder.

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 indicates generally the handle of the appliance which is formed of a piece of spring wire of adequate gage, having the medial portion looped, as indicated at 6, and having the adjacent portions thereof twisted and curved to deline the body member 7 lying adjacent the loop 6 and the overlying spring 8.

The loop 6 is bent centrally and away from the free end ofthe spring member 8 to define a pair of substantially L shaped retaining members 9 and an anchoring member 10, which latter is secured by a staple, or the like, 11 to the curved free end 12 of a-plate 13, having the inner extremity curved to provide a tubular securing member 14: engaged with the body member 7.

A shuttle, designated generally by the numeral 15, is pivotally mounted in the looped end 6 of the body member 7 and is formed with an inner pointed end 16 and a flat outer end 17, having the end 1S thereof curved and engaged with the curved end 12 of the plate 13. The attened end 17 of the shuttle is formed with a thread-receiving eye 19 and the central portion thereof is formed with opposed lateral enlargements or lugs 20 engaged under the L shaped members 9 of the loop 6 to prevent accidental removal of the shuttle from the holding loop 6.

The herein described sewing appliance is particularly designed to facilitate guiding or drawing the under or lock thread through the loops of the upper thread in lock stitching, and in actual practice a loop 22 of the upper thread, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, is inserted through an aperture formed in the material to be sewed by an awl or other suitable tool and the under or lock thread 23 is positioned through the eye 19 in the relatively flat end 17 of the shuttle 15. The pointed end 16 of the shuttle is engaged in the loop of the upper thread 22, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the shuttle 15 and under` thread 23 are drawn through the loop of the upper thread by drawing the handle 5 longitudinally, the loop of the upper thread passing under the shuttle 15 and between the latter and the L- shaped members 9 and the curved terminal 12 of the plate 18. It will be understood that the shuttle 15 is loosely mounted in the loop 6 so as to permit the loop of the upper thread 22 to freely pass between the L- shaped members 9 and the lugs 20 and the curved end 18 of the shuttle at the adjacent extremities 12 of the plate 13, and should the shuttle become caught or wedged between the L-shaped members 9, the spring member 8 is depressed, thus engaging the free ends thereof with the pointed extremity 16 of the shuttle and effectively loosening the latter.

What I claim is:

1. A sewing appliance including a handle member, a shuttle, means pivotally securing said shuttle in said handle member, and a plate carried by said handle having a curved end engaging one end of said shuttle.

2. A sewing appliance including a handle member, a shuttle, means pivotally securing said shuttle to said handle member, a plate secured to said handle member having a curved end engaging one end of said shuttle, and spring means for engaging and loosening said shuttle in said securing means.

3. A sewing appliance including a shuttle, holding means pivotally receiving said shuttle, a handle member carried by said holding means, a plate carried by said handle member having a curved end engag ing one end of said shuttle, and spring means for engaging the pointed end of said shuttle to loosen the latter in said holder.

4. A sewing appliance comprising a handle having a loop formed on one end, a shuttle pivoted on said loop, said loop being Copies of this patent may be obtained for pivoted to said anchoring member, and a bent to form an anchoring member, a plate secured to said anchoring member, and means for attaching the plate to the handle.

5. A sewing appliance comprising a handle having a loop formed on one end, a shuttle pivoted on said loop, said loop being bent to form an anchoring member, a plate 25 cylindrical extension formed on the plate and surrounding a portion of the handle.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature m presence of two Witnesses.

his SAMUEL D. JACKSON.

mark Vitnesses J. E. CARTER, CLAUDIA CARTER.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. C. 

